If the adults aren't taking action on their obesity, why should the kids care? If the parents don't know good from bad, how are they to teach their kids at the dinner table? This has to be a shift in the entire culture, not just these kids. Everyone KNOWS that fresh food is better, but why aren't they gravitating in that direction? In the last three years "the number of obese Americans has increased by 2.4 million". Gadgets, gizmos, weight loss programs, billion dollar industry, plenty of new clients and dropoutreturn clients, this is obviously a broken system. How do we get the parents involved? How do we stop a multi billion dollar industry preying on short term solutions? If we fix it for THIS generation, what's to prevent it from affecting the next-next generation?

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The Unprofessional
Cred:
BFA Carnegie Mellon
Past:
- Industrial designer at a couple of design firms
- Interaction designer for a multibillion dollar eCommerce site
- Information and graphic designer for the Smithsonian
- EMT-D on ambulances
- Editor for an underground skapunk magazine that you've never heard of
- Shooting coordinator for a fashion photographer, Miyakawa
- Researcher at a So.Cal design firm
- On-Air DJ for WRCT88.3FM
- Strategist in the advanced planning and strategy department at Nissan developing future vehicle concepts for 5 to 20 years out.
Present:
- Re-envisioning the two thousand year old education system through the design of hybrid learning environments for Kindergarten through Higher Education at Blackboard.
- Independent research projects, three books, collective, illustration, branding projects for entrepreneurs.
“Doctors take you from a negative state to a neutral state. Designers take you from a neutral state to a positive state.” -Ko Nakatsu

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This article is just one reference but I have heard of this conclusion on numerous occasions; lower income families have higher rates of obesity. I think this is an important factor to consider, especially when coming up with solutions to this problem. Whatever solutions we suggest should be extremely cost effective otherwise people simply won't be able to try them out.